Luntz presided over the focus group Monday night in
Virginia; it featured 29 people who either support Trump or
have at some point during the campaign expressed support for
him. Business Insider attended the focus group.

The focus group should not be considered
representative of the Republican Party as a whole, or of the
electorate in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire. But their
unwavering support indicates that there may be nothing that can
take down Trump.

"This is a different cat. This is a different phenomenon,"
Luntz told reporters after conducting the focus
group.

"I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and
let them see. They need to wake up. They don't realize how the
grassroots have abandoned them. Donald Trump is punishment
to a Republican elite that wasn’t listening to their grassroots."

On Trump's feud with television personality
Rosie O'Donnell, one panelist said she "attacked him first." A
majority of respondents reacted negatively to his comments on
McCain, but Luntz said Tuesday night that Trump was the only
candidate this cycle to score a perfect 100 from respondents when
they viewed his comments on veterans.

Even his history of more liberal positions on
certain issues didn't appear to faze voters. One panelist asked
the others in the room "how many" of them had not changed their
positions on anything over the past 15 years.

The group was "prepped to dismiss every negative," Luntz
said. "His base cannot be broken."

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It certainly won't be broken by controversies
that resonate in the press. Panelists appeared particularly
disdainful of most mainstream media outlets, claiming that "the
media" is collectively seeking to discredit Trump.

Almost everyone in the room agreed when Luntz
asked if the media was "more about inciting than informing," and
all but one panel member agreed or did not respond when asked
about whether they are inclined to automatically support Trump
when he is attacked by media outlets.

"The media and the establishment are deathly
afraid of Trump," a panel member said.

"That's why I particularly love him. Because the
media has become de facto the power behind the throne in this
country."

"Every time the media thinks it's got a
'gotcha,' he turns it around on them," another panelist
said.

And at the end of the session, when
reporters from The Washington Post and The Associated
Press came into the room to ask questions, several outspoken
panel members made snide comments.

"They need to start reporting again," a panelist
said after Washington Post reporter Robert Costa left the
room.